A1101 crash in West Suffolk on 7 August 2016 at 18:02 involving a Volkswagen Golf
A Volkswagen Golf crashed on the A1101 in West Suffolk at 18:02 on Sunday 7 August 2016. The 19-year-old male driver and a 20-year-old female passenger were slightly injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry single carriageway with a 50 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 7 Aug 2016
- Sunday, 18:02
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volkswagen Golf
- Casualties
- 2
- 2 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 52.29574, longitude 0.65957, in the IP28 postcode district. The location was in the former St Edmundsbury district.
Map of where the crash happened in West Suffolk
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2016370101014
- Council area
- West Suffolk
- Police force
- Suffolk
- Police attended the scene
- Yes
- Highway authority
- Suffolk
Road and location details
- First road class
- A
- First road number
- 1101
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 50 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- From injuries recorded by police (CRASH system)
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 0%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 100%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 19 January 2017.
Serious
Mercedes CLK Class crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 19 January 2017
At the same spotRef 2017370151840
Serious
Audi A6 crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 31 December 2013
1 m awayRef 201337EA77134
Serious
Bus crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 16 May 1985
55 m awayRef 1985373082900
Slight
Vauxhall Astra crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 4 January 2004
58 m awayRef 200437B018548
Slight
Ford Escort crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 21 June 2001
76 m awayRef 200137B011162
Slight
Car crash on the A1101 in West Suffolk, 1 April 1981
86 m awayRef 1981373054800
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volkswagen Golf
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- South
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- Hit object off carriageway
- Tree
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 19 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,390 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 12 years
- Driver home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualties (2)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 19, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Home area deprivation
- 10 to 20% most deprived
Casualty 2: Passenger
SlightFemale, aged 20, car occupant, in vehicle 1 (Volkswagen Golf)
- Car passenger
- Front seat passenger
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2016370101014 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the West Suffolk road accident statistics for 2016.